If you hold property, casualty, life, accident, and health authorities, you must complete at least eight of the 24 required hours in courses related to each of these lines of authority, plus three hours of Ethics. If you earn more than three Ethics credits, they will be applied towards your 24 hour credit requirement.

Producers that received a reduction in hours will have to complete 15 hours of CE biennially by the last day of their birth month/year; three of the 15 hours must be in Ethics. Producers with reduced compliance and hold multi-lines must complete six hours in Property and Casualty; six hours in Life, Accident, and Health; and three hours of Ethics. Producers that add additional lines of authority or allow their licenses to become inactive will lose their reduction in hours.

A producer may repeat a continuing education course, but credit must not be given more than once for a course repeated during a biennial compliance period and within two years of its original completion date.

You may access a list of approved courses on Prometric’s website. On advertisements, look for courses which have been approved for South Carolina continuing insurance education credit. If you have any doubt, call Prometric at 1-800-490-6551 and request a listing of all approved courses and sponsors.

In accordance with the changes to Regulation 69-50 regarding proctor approval, we are no longer approving proctors. Producers are no longer required to use a state approved proctor to proctor their continuing education courses. They may now use any disinterested third party to proctor their exam. That third party may not be their employer, employee, supervisor, relative, spouse, or minor.